Poems (1962-1997)

Poems (1962-1997)By Robert Lax, edited by John Beer Description Reviews Poems (1962 1997) gathers 35 years of Robert Laxs work, rarely published and largely composed in solitude on the island of Patmos. Compiled and edited by the poets former assistant John Beer, this selection reflectsthrough meditative sequences in striking vertical columnsLaxs rigorous attention to the world around him, and his relentless aspiration to new ways of writing. A necessary read for

with Charles Olson’s idea

As in his previous books

and e-receipts

ISBN# 9781950268641 (7x9 80pp

They take fundamentals of the structure

including poems and facsimile pages of some of his more visually evocative work

to make the comparisons take on a life of their own

blurring where one poem ends and the next begins

Choi’s Hardly War thus defies genre

though now and then

part fiction

with its lack of transitions